Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. (Gerhard Richter)

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

Gerhard Richter

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